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The Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (4); Evangeline. the Song of Hiawatha. the Courtship of Miles Standish
The Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline the Song of Hiawatha the Courtship of Miles Standish - 4 Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Volume: 4 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1886 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com ... more »where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: NOTES I. EVANGELINE. Page 20. Litt to a Tale of Love m Acadie, home of the happg. [In the earliest records Acadie is called Cadie; afterwards it was called Arcadia, Accadia, or L'Acadie. The name is probably a French adaptation of a word common among the Micmac Indians, signifying place or region, and used as an affix to other words to indicate the place where various things, such as cranberries, eels, seals, were found in abundance. The French turned this Indian term into Cadie or Acadie; the English into Quoddy, in which form it remains when applied to the Quoddy Indians, to Quoddy Head, the last point of the United States next to Acadia, and in the compound Passamaquoddy, or Pollock-Ground.] Page 27. Lucky wot he who found that stone in the nest of the swallow. " If the eyes of one of the young of a swallow be put out, the mother bird will bring from the sea-shore a little stone, which will immediately restore its sight; fortunate is the person who finds this little stone in the nest, for it is a miraculous remedy." Pluquet, Contei Populaires, quoted by Wright, Literature and Superstitions of England in the Middle Ages, L 128. Page 28. " Sunshine of Saint Eulalie " wat the called. 61 Ie sohil lit le Jour Salnto-EoUlie D y aura poounea at cldre 4 folia." Puwmr in Wuobt, I. 131. Page 29. Flashed like a plane-tree the Persian adorned with mantles and jewels. See Evelyn's Silva, II. 53. [The story runs back to Herodotus, VU. 31, the " Persian " being Xerxes.] Page 36. For he told them tales. [The stories of the Loup-garou, or were-wolf, and ...« less